CraigElder
(Craig Elder)
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Issues & Pull Requests
Plane
Copter
Rover
CraigElder
(Craig Elder)
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Attendee count (max): 13
UTC2300 - Light on the crowd
- Can make entire call about Solo – Matt
- No Tom, Michael or tridge; not much Plane
UTC2302 - Conference roundup
- Well attended
- Presentations will received
- Hex was a gracious host
- Toured around a bit
- Productive conference
- Lots of people talking to Craig about AP
- Busy place
- Randy picked up several contacts
- Some sort of drone development centre
- EKF development is stalled?
- Randy was asked specifically about this
- Paul’s around but we’re not funding EKF as much as we should
- Need to find more EKF developers!
- There are some around
- e.g . EAMS labs, Robsense
- Knowledge-sharing?
- Videos going up on AP youtube channel
UTC2308 - mavlink stuff
- Update pymavlink and mavlink
- https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/9603
- Tridge is thinking of verting the xsd enforcement of description and adding a warning in mavgen.py
- Can’t enforce description because pymavlink has to be able to work with older xml
- The PRs from Amilcar look OK to Peter, but tridge handles the updates to these submodules typically
UTC2313 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/9569
- Works
- Hard to tune
- Leonard is going to change to add slew rate after linearisation rather than before
- Needs a comment as to what’s going on on the PR
- Needs more review
UTC2315 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/9497
- Waiting for reviews
- Tabled for now
UTC2317 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/9411
- Support for new compass
- Reviewed by both tridge and Francisco
- Should stick with them for the time being
- Need to sort the licensing out
- V2 code being used
- It is v2-or-later, apparently
- Looks like they did come to an agreement, can probably be merged when tridge is back
UTC2318 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/9391
- Insufficient Plane people on call for this
UTC2320 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/9167
- Insufficient Plane people on call for this
UTC2321 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/8816
- Refactoring parameter management
- Tridge needs to look at it
- Or someone else could test it in SITL
UTC2323 - Vesca protocol
UTC2326 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/8175
- Quadplane pitch trim
- Needs some help to move along, by the looks of it
UTC2328 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/5518
- Checks have passed
- Github’s been having issues!
- Randy will look at after the call
UTC2330 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/7493
UTC2331 - Randy and Copter
- Caught up on Copter 3.6 release threads
- Still trying to separate out ode issues from setup issues
- Several new issues have come up
- https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/issues/9498
- Can’t descend in flowhold mode
- Pre-existing issue about compass not starting when S.BU is plugged in
- Streamrates for mavlink messages aren’t going high enough
- They went higher in previous editions?
- SmartRTL chewing too much CPU?
- Thanks to David Atkin for doing lots of support!
- No soft-release so far
- Soft-release by Friday with any luck!
UTC2336 - Randy and Rover
- Want to get tacking support in before release
- Lots of testing is going well
- Sailboat Support
- Much improved
- Not done on same day, ‘though
- Waypoint issue
- Have to go on one side or the other for racing
- There’s some code out there ATM for it?
- Make an exclusion zone on inside of buoy?
- Navigation issue evident in bottom image
- Nongps navigation is coming along
UTC2345 - Close
UTC2346 - Addendum
- Olivier will announce winner/s for contribution of the month